Sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKHLECME| Thousands of sheep soft footed black nosed sheep | A |
| one by one going up the hill and over the fence one by | B |
| one four footed pattering up and over one by one wiggling | C |
| their stub tails as they take the short jump and go | D |
| over one by one silently unless for the multitudinous | E |
| drumming of their hoofs as they move on and go over | F |
| thousands and thousands of them in the grey haze of | G |
| evening just after sundown one by one slanting in a | H |
| long line to pass over the hill | I |
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| I am the slow long legged Sleepyman and I love you | J |
| sheep in Persia California Argentine Australia or | K |
| Spain you are the thoughts that help me when I the | H |
| Sleepyman lay my hands on the eyelids of the children | L |
| of the world at eight o'clock every night you thousands | E |
| and thousands of sheep in a procession of dusk making | C |
| an endless multitudinous drumming on the hills with | M |
| your hoofs | E |
Carl Sandburg
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